Famous quotes by Novelists

"A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born"

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Novelist

"You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed"

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Novelist

"When you give yourself, you receive more than you give"

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Novelist

"Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart"

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Novelist

"'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'"

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Novelist

"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward in the same direction"

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Novelist

"The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity"

Anatole France, Novelist

"Silence is the wit of fools"

Anatole France, Novelist

"The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread"

Anatole France, Novelist

"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards"

Anatole France, Novelist

"One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me"

Anatole France, Novelist

"Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign"

Anatole France, Novelist

"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't"

Anatole France, Novelist

"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another"

Anatole France, Novelist

"Perhaps they were right in putting love into books... Perhaps it could not live anywhere else"

William Faulkner, Novelist

"The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it"

William Faulkner, Novelist

"The scattered tea goes with the leaves, and every day a sunset dies"

William Faulkner, Novelist

"The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones"

William Faulkner, Novelist

"If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything"

William Faulkner, Novelist

"Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder"

William Faulkner, Novelist

"Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life"

William Faulkner, Novelist

"Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise"

Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist

"The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part"

Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist

"In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd"

Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist

"It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it"

Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist

"Fear has many eyes and can see things underground"

Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist

"The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application"

Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist

"True valor lies between cowardice and rashness"

Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist

"From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment"

Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist

"A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience"

Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist

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